Splunk Customer Wins InfoWorld 100 Award for Cutting Edge Troubleshooting Implementation

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Splunk, creators of the search engine for logs and IT data, applauds its customer, Open Source Lab at Oregon State University (OSL), for being recognized as one of the most creative and cutting-edge implementers of enterprise technology by industry- leading publication InfoWorld. OSL was among 100 companies honored with the prestigious InfoWorld 100 Award for the most innovative corporate IT solutions in 2006. The acclaimed project includes Splunk, the industries highest performance log and IT data search engine.

OSL provides free hosting for many of the most high profile open source projects in the world: the Linux Kernel Project, the Apache Software Foundation, Debian Linux, Gentoo Linux, OpenOffice.org, KDE, Mozilla and Drupal. The lab's size has more than tripled in the past 18 months and hosts 130 servers. Utilizing Splunk enables OSL staff to reduce the time it takes to investigate and resolve routine issues. OSL uses Splunk about three times a day to dig through gigabytes of logfiles to get to the root cause of issues. They also use Splunk to proactively discover issues before users experience and report them.

"Congratulations to OSL for this well-earned recognition as one of today's top IT innovators," said Michael Baum, chief executive officer at Splunk. "We're thrilled our customer's Splunk implementations continue to receive third-party, independent recognition. OSL is on the forefront of using innovative IT solutions like Splunk to manage systems supporting thousands of open source developers worldwide."

"We are honored to receive the InfoWorld 100 Award for our use of Splunk to maintain our on-demand systems and application availability. We use Splunk on a daily basis along with open source products like GNU/cfengine and Xen," said Corey Shields, infrastructure manager at Open Source Labs at Oregon State University. "If you're a systems administrator, you need to check out Splunk. Grep and awk give you a 'fire and hope you aimed right' interface to finding what you are looking for, but Splunk's interface gives you a way to 'aim that bullet' once it leaves the chamber."

Splunk's search software indexes and enables you to search and navigate logs and other types of IT data generated by any application, server or networking device, making it possible to achieve extreme levels of availability, meet compliance mandates and cut operations costs.

More than 60,000 system administrators, developers and support engineers have downloaded Splunk since its launch in late last year. More than 70 enterprise customers including Apple, BEA, Comcast, FedEx, Sony, Sybase, U.S. Postal Service, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of State and Vodafone are splunking their IT infrastructures. The demand for real-time search and navigation through complex mountains of production log and IT data is turning Splunk into a global experience.

For more information on OSLOSU application of Splunk, please visit: http://www.splunk.com/customers/357

For more information on the InfoWorld 100 awards, please visit: http://www.infoworld.com/archives/t.jsp?N=s&V=83513

About OSL

The Oregon State University Open Source Lab is a global, world-class facility and data center for Open Source Software (OSS) knowledge, hosting, infrastructure, development, and collaboration. The Open Source Lab fosters the development of unique OSS products, as well as directly assists in the development, implementation, and use of targeted OSS solutions for use in education, research, government, and business. By working closely with the OSU community, other universities, governments, and private sector business, the OSU Open Source Lab is quickly becoming a critical worldwide center for services related to Open Source software.

About Splunk

Splunk is the search engine for logs and IT data. It's software that indexes, manages and enables you to search logs and IT data from any application, server or network device in real time. Splunk is easy to download, install and use and it's very powerful. Enterprises, government organizations and more than 60,000 users are achieving higher availability, meeting compliance requirements and cutting IT costs with Splunk. Based in San Francisco, Splunk is a private company funded by August Capital, JK&B Capital and Sevin Rosen Funds. Check us out at http://www.splunk.com/ .